I think it's absolutely ironic that our Western neighbors are now delighting so openly -- so večernjakly -- in ćevapi when at other times they vehemently decry this Balkanoid, Asiatic assault at the mitteleuropäische cuisine.

Any culinary anthropoologists out there? It would seem reasonable to expect that very few meat products like cevapi were widespread at all in agricultural areas before the modern period. It would require killing a rare farm animal just to get one piece.